Application of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy in Patient with Bipolar Affective Disorder

Background: The origins of bipolar disorder trace back to ancient civilizations, where early medical texts described symptoms resembling manic and depressive episodes. Aim: The present study aims to assess and compare the emotion regulation and quality of life in the in patient with Bipolar Affective Disorder pre and post intervention on the application of Mind Based Cognitive Therapy. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design with control group. The sample consists of a total of 10 patients were diagnosed Bipolar Affective Disorder in remission according to ICD-10 DCR using a purposive sampling selected from the outpatient and inpatients department of the CIIMHANS, Dewada, Rajnandgoan, India. Further these patients divided into two groups as experimental group (5) and control group (5). Tools used WHO Quality of life and Emotion regulation questionnaire. Results: Result of the current study revealed that the experiment group of Bipolar Affective Disorder patients improved in different domains of quality of life and emotion regulation after the application of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy treatment and exhibited enhanced quality of life and emotion regulation as compared to control group. Conclusion: Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy allows patients to have an optimistic attitude on life, accepts difficult events, deal with the present, and adopt suitable behaviours to quality of life with negative thoughts and feelings by enhancing self-cognitions and psychological flexibility of emotion regulation patients with Bipolar Affective Disorder.